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> Being an open source maintainer doesn't mean you're entitled to recognition or praise or deference. You're not entitled to put out low-quality software and ha
by yawaramin 7y ago
> Being an open source maintainer doesn't mean you're entitled to recognition or praise or deference. You're not entitled to put out low-quality software and have others pretend it's awesome. You're not entitled to make claims that are false and not be called out for it. You're not even entitled to people not trashing your work.
That's fine and all but you are entitled to control your own repo, its issues, pull requests, and related fora. You are entitled to set the acceptable standard of communications and if you don't like the way someone is communicating you are entitled to shutting that off.
See, entitlement works both ways: as a maintainer you're not entitled to a lot of things, but as users others are also not entitled to lots of things.